Archive for May, 2009

Secret of Success: Delay Gratification

Filed under Economics

For centuries patience and rejecting instant gratification have been known as keys to success. Now, we have Joachim de Posada offering experimental proof.

Such virtue would help ease a lot of our current problems.

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Cougar Town

Courtney Cox’s latest show is disturbing:

But that’s what happens when decent shows like Dirt (guilty pleasure, I know) didn’t cut it in the ratings.
[via Parcbench]

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Twitter Not Relying on Advertising

Filed under Internet

Twitter will remain free of advertising until they discover selling add-on services won’t pay the bills. Maybe I’m wrong and add-ons will work. Who knew Google would become the internet monster by selling little text ads? Entrepreneurs are on this planet to take big risks. Best of luck to the Twitter guys.
In order to Twitter […]

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Ignore Seymour Hersh

Filed under Media

Anyone who takes Seymour Hersh seriously anymore should lose all credibility.
“‘US Special Squad Killed Benazir‘”

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In Defense of Wonder Bread

Filed under Economics, Food

Louise Fresco argues that foodstuffs like Wonder Bread (which are awesome for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches) are how we’ll feed billions with fewer and fewer people.

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New License for White House Flickr Photos

Interesting. Due to the Obama White House posting photos onto Flickr the photo-sharing site added the “United States Government Work” to its list of licenses. I’ll have to see if Senate and House photos would have a similar status.
“Flickr Creates New License for White House Photos“

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In My Time of Dyin’

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Three sisters pull off a folk cover of Led Zeppelin’s “In My Time of Dyin’.” I could like this. Plus, it’s a free download from Amazon.com so it’s no risk.

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Myst for iPhone

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I’ve never played Myst. I have never been too interested in gaming on the PC and so never bought a computer that usually had the horsepower to play games. But delving in the computer/internet world for close to two decades I couldn’t avoid hearing about Myst. The game is pretty much the opposite of games […]

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